They don’t want their own lawsuits if they can avoid them. It could also just be settled with Midjourney agreeing to pay Disney and NBCUniversal a licensing fee to keep creating copies of their IP.

Midjourney has released version 1 of its AI video model, coming a week after the start-up was targeted in a copyright-infringement lawsuit by Disney and NBCUniversal. At launch, Midjourney will ...

Disney and NBCUniversal have joined forces to take legal action against Midjourney, accusing the generative artificial intelligence (AI) company of copyright infringement for allegedly producing ...

Two major Hollywood studios are suing Midjourney, a popular AI image generator, over its use and distribution of intellectual property. Disney and NBCUniversal (NBCU) have teamed up to file a ...

The Walt Disney Company and NBCUniversal have jointly filed a groundbreaking copyright infringement lawsuit against an artificial intelligence image-generation company, Midjourney, saying its theft of ...

The lawsuit accuses Midjourney of ignoring its previous requests to stop violating its intellectual property rights, which Disney and NBCUniversal have traced back to its generative AI tools, such ...

The Disney Co. and NBCUniversal sued an AI start-up Wednesday in L.A., alleging in federal court that Midjourney illegally uses copyrighted works to create images that “blatantly incorporate and ...

Founded in 2021, Midjourney had more than $200 million in revenue in 2023 and reportedly made $300 million in revenue last year, with almost 21 million users as of September 2024, according to the ...

Disney and NBCUniversal are the first Hollywood players to take a shot across the bow of a generative AI company that they claim has stolen their copyrighted characters. Disney and NBCU filed a ...

The Walt Disney Co. and NBCUniversal sued AI company Midjourney on Wednesday, alleging that its image-generating service “functions as a virtual vending machine” that generates “endless unauthorized ...

The lawsuit features the images, as well as a number of other examples. Representatives for Midjourney did not immediately respond to request for comment. Read Disney and NBCUniversal’s AI lawsuit.